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Bjørn Forsman c9baba9212 Fix many package descriptions
(My OCD kicked in today...)

Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.

I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.

I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).

Some specifics worth mentioning:
 * cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
   mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
   description.

 * ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
   "exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
   at the end of description.

 * nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
   doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
   the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
   makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
   nixos.org).

 * Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
   is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
   contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
   either.
2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00

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{ fetchurl, stdenv, libtool, gettext, zlib, readline, gsasl
, guile, python, pcre, libffi }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "dico-2.2";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/dico/${name}.tar.xz";
sha256 = "04pjks075x20d19l623mj50bw64g8i41s63z4kzzqcbg9qg96x64";
};
# XXX: Add support for GNU SASL.
buildInputs =
[ libtool gettext zlib readline gsasl guile python pcre libffi ];
# dicod fails to load modules, so the tests fail
doCheck = false;
preBuild = ''
sed -i -e '/gets is a security/d' gnu/stdio.in.h
'';
meta = with stdenv.lib; {
description = "Flexible dictionary server and client implementing RFC 2229";
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/dico/;
license = "GPLv3+";
maintainers = with maintainers; [ lovek323 ];
platforms = platforms.unix;
longDescription = ''
GNU Dico is a flexible modular implementation of DICT server
(RFC 2229). In contrast to another existing servers, it does
not depend on particular database format, instead it handles
database accesses using loadable modules.
The package includes several loadable modules for interfacing
with various database formats, among them a module for dict.org
databases and a module for transparently accessing Wikipedia or
Wiktionary sites as a dictionary database.
New modules can easily be written in C, Guile or Python. The
module API is mature and well documented.
A web interface serving several databases is available.
The package also includes a console client program for querying
remote dictionary servers.
'';
};
}